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by FigBug 13y ago
Why not switch to actual GB like the OS X did. I'm not sure why anybody prefers GiB.
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by FigBug 13y ago
Is there any proof that hard drive manufactures actually switched? It's always just repeated as truth. I remember megabytes being all over the place in the days of floppy disks, 1000 * 1000 or 1000 * 1024 or 1024 * 1024. Hardware engin
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by FigBug 13y ago
Facebook Messenger does it every time you go to the App, it's very annoying. It definitely makes me use it less. I don't think Apps should be aware if they have had permissions denied, functions should just quietly return nothing&
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by FigBug 13y ago
Something I've been wondering about Bitcoin: If Bitcoin is going to be used as a currency, you'll need to be able to get loans, short term like a credit card and long term like a mortgage. But isn't taking a loan in a deflati
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by FigBug 13y ago
I said it 'could be' the next big thing, not it will be. I agree it's a long shot. Web Apps have been very good to developers. Zero piracy, no installation issues, low support costs. Users like them because it's simple t
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by FigBug 13y ago
It's not. Except Windows has 95% of the market and the Mac had 5% of the market. So even though it's easier and cheaper to support a Mac app, the market is so much smaller it's still not really worth it. Compare to mobile whe
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by FigBug 13y ago
Not a lot of details, but it sounds like what I'm thinking about.
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by FigBug 13y ago
I'm more thinking so the average person would have their own server for their family, rather than the people who have servers now. Sure "apt-get install" installs the software, but configuring it to do anything useful is stil
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by FigBug 13y ago
I think it's a general problem with services. I much prefer using desktop software, even when it's discontinued, it still works. I think the next big thing could be bringing App Stores to servers. 1 click install, zero config, etc
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by FigBug 13y ago
Nope.
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by FigBug 13y ago
The book has 24 essays, they aren't all listed in the Wiki page.
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by FigBug 13y ago
In "The Man Who mistook His Wife for a Hat" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_fo... ), a book on mental disorders, there is a case of a man who can only make rational decisions. He is
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by FigBug 13y ago
If you want to work on files with people (other than supported by google docs) you both need the desktop app installed. Far more people have the Dropbox desktop app installed than Google drive. I find Dropbox websharing far easier, right-cl
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by FigBug 13y ago
Google Drive doesn't work, at least for me. It won't reliably stay connected. There is no reconnect option either, so every time it disconnects you have to exit/restart and then it has to re-index all the files. Sharing is cl
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by FigBug 13y ago
How do you record a trace? That would be interesting to do.
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by FigBug 13y ago
Just after the OS boots, Dropbox needs to index 120 GB of files. Any other program that wants to access the disk takes forever. For Dropbox to finish, for my mail and IDEs to open takes about 10 minutes. Any other program that needs the dis
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by FigBug 13y ago
Happens to Windows and Mac OS too. Every time I boot Dropbox thrashes my disk for 10 minutes while the system is almost completely unresponsive.
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by FigBug 13y ago
I switched my Garmin to Australian as well. Now it calls onramps 'sliproads'. Does know what the abbreviation HWY means. A few others as well. Not sure why that's encoded in the accent and not the location.
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by FigBug 13y ago
This one impressed me the most: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 After a total hydraulic failure, the pilots still managed to land just using thrust difference between the two engines. I'm i
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by FigBug 13y ago
I just ran the numbers for curiosities sake: The average American spends $20,000 on their credit cards. If credit card fees are 4% and the retailer gives half back, the customer saves: $400 a year. To save $400, the customer: - Gives up acc
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by FigBug 13y ago
The way I see it, unless you are a speculator/miner, there is no upside to using bitcoin for transactions right now. The risks are too high for almost existence benefits. I understand when merchants would be pushing bitcoin, no fees, n
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by FigBug 13y ago
Transactions can be reversed. They leave a trail. The punishments are huge. It's not worth the risk. Hacking a bitcoin exchange has no consequences. MtGox has no idea where the money went.
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by FigBug 13y ago
Right now it is pretty much a binary choice - trust and install. Don't trust and don't install. I trust the developer to have implemented the SSH protocol correctly -- I have to trust them that much. But I don't see why I sho
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by FigBug 13y ago
It will take a combination of things. Sandboxing applications would be a good start. That way you don't need to trust application developers.
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by FigBug 13y ago
Old school yes, but the hobbyist market it only a drop in the bucket. Around 1,000,000 Ardunios have been sold total. Atmel doesn't give numbers, but the 8-bit MCU market is around 6.7 billion units per year, AVR is a large share of th
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by FigBug 13y ago
There are lots of 32bit micros with all those peripherals, I think it's just that the embedded industry moves slowly and adopts new products with caution. I think it's only a matter of time before all microcontrollers are ARM and
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by FigBug 13y ago
I don't think you'd put a full system in a cable, but you'd make smart cables like Apple's lightning cable or their video adapters that actually convert signals.
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by FigBug 13y ago
I wonder if it's the beginning of the end 8-bit and 16-bit micro. Prices of 32-bit micros are so low now, they are so small, it just doesn't seem worth the hassle of dealing with an 8/16bit. I'm sure they'll exist i
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by FigBug 13y ago
Does anybody know of open source vector rendering engine for OSM that I could incorporate into an iOS app? I'd like to get away from using tiles.
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by FigBug 13y ago
It can do it on the iPhone as well if you search for 'ok maps' It's bizarre that it's hidden feature.

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